TY - BOOK AU - Evans, Tanya AU - Thane, Pat TI - Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? : unmarried motherhood in twentieth-century England SN - 9780199578504 U1 - 306.874 THA PY - 2012/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Unmarried mothers - England - London - History - 18th century KW - Public welfare - England - History - 20th century N1 -

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-218) and index.

; Secrets and lies : being and becoming an unmarried mother in early-twentieth-century England -- Between the wars -- The Second World War : another moral panic -- Unmarried motherhood in "family Britain" : challenging Bowlby -- Unmarried mothers in the "welfare state" -- The permissive society? Unmarried motherhood in the 1960s -- A finer future? -- The struggle continues : 1980s-90s -- Into the twenty-first century : progress? ER -